xv, 290 pages ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references

Blow back / T.D. Allman -- A talk with Manuel Noriega / Oliver Stone -- Teachings of Don Fernando : a life and death in the narcotics trade / Charles Bowden -- George Soro's long strange trip : a philanthropist defies drug war orthodoxy / Russ Baker -- What do we do when the drug war stops? / Rowena Young -- BYO heroin / Maurice Frank -- World leaders on dope : right joins left in call for an end to the drug war / Russ Kick -- Mayor Rocky Anderson talks about what it's like to drop the D.A.R.E. program / Alexandra Eyle -- Breaking out of the 12-step lockstep ; Drug abuse treatment or drug treatment abuse / Maia Szalavitz -- Re-engineering the drug business / Matthew Brzezinski -- Workaday world, crack economy : breaking rocks in El Barrio / Philippe Bourgois -- America's lonely drug war / Adam J. Smith -- America's dirty war on drugs / Christopher Hitchens -- Why Dutch drug policy threatens the U.S. / Craig Reinarman -- The drug wars : voices from the street / Tim Wells, William Triplett -- This is your Bill of Rights / Graham Boyd, Jack Hitt -- Smash-up policing : when law enforcement goes military / Dave Kopel -- Casualty in the war on drugs / Jim Dwyer -- There's no justice in the war on drugs : can our laws be moral if they have so racist an effect? / Milton Friedman -- Commonsense drug policy / Ethan A. Nadelmann -- My problem with the war on drugs / P.J. O'Rourke -- The war on drugs is lost / William F. Buckley, Jr., Kurt Schmoke, Joseph McNamara, Robert W. Sweet --- The politics of ecstasy / Charles S. Grob -- A mother's advice about drugs / Marsha Rosenbaum -- The myth of "harmless" marijuana / John P. Walters -- The problem is pot prohibition / Keith Stroup, Paul Armentano -- Dope fiends : a tape transcript / A.M. Rosenthal, Barry McCaffrey -- America's altered states : when does legal relief of pain become illegal pursuit of pleasure? / Joshua Wolf Shenk -- The war on (some) drugs / Stephen Jay Gould -- No relief in sight / Jacob Sullum -- Whither medical marijuana / Lester Grinspoon

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